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Our political parties are the weak link to real national development

Ballot boxes at Ruaraka constituency tallying centre during the August 2022 election. [Kelly Ayodi, Standard]

On 13 September 2001, Sir Iain Duncan Smith was elected leader of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party. In the last 22 years since his election, the Conservative Party has had six leaders.

This includes Rishi Sunak, the latest Party Leader who is also the UK Prime Minister. Clearly, UK continues to develop because political parties are defined by ideologies, not personalities.

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